Accountability Quotes - Page 12

• We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

  Eckhard Pfeiffer

  Educational, Needs, Ownership

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• A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

  Peter James

  Sunday, Thinking, Unique

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Civil Rights, Positive Atheism

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• Design and the urgency to preserve it - not as a museum relic, as a living experience. And for me, something that lives alongside mass-produced goods. I'm not saying get away from it. My battle is there is a marketplace for what people wear and what they eat and care about how things are made and not just that they were made, and that's the core focus. I know where things come from, I know their families. I do that throughout my life - I know who makes my suits, and I know where my eggs come from. Everyone and everything is accounted for and has accountability.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  People, Design, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

  Edward Greenspon

  Democracy, Analysis, Information

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I think I enjoy regressing. There's a part of living like that that's really fun. It's like there's no consequences: If you want to drink, you drink; if you're hungover the next day and you're late to work, who cares? There's something very appealing about having no accountability in life, but it's just not a way that I had the energy to live forever.

  Jenna Fischer

  Fun, Thinking, Forever

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The Goldstone Report establishes the credibility of the accusations directed at Israel with respect to its tactics used during the 2008 - 09 attacks on Gaza, but was not able to facilitate the next step that would have involved activating accountability mechanisms either within Israel or at the level of international society.

  Richard A. Falk

  Israel, Levels, Able

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Teacher, Stress, Men

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• There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Today

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights norms is a restraint on interventionary diplomacy, especially if coupled with respect for the legal norm of self-determination. But on another level, the protection of human rights creates a pretext for intervention as given approval by the UN Security Council in the form of the R2P (responsibility to protect) norm, as used in the 2011 Libyan intervention. The same applies with international criminal accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Determination, Responsibility, Self

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Our whole goal is really to create a culture of accountability. Because for a very long time, ending sexual assault has been on the backs of survivors. And it's really up to everyone to be part of the solution. It's really about not creating a culture of awareness. It's something I often tell parents of kids who are going off to college: It's about asking those hard questions when your kids are applying to school and encouraging them to ask about their rights, to ask about their resources.

  Andrea Pino

  School, Kids, College

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty. But also in ensuring that decision-making is made by those who the people can hold accountable.

  Ted Cruz

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: time.com

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• It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Fundamentals

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability to the athletes they are supposed to be protecting and they don't have accountability to the truth. What we've seen out of Russia is a continual denial, no matter what has been presented. They are still blaming Grigory Rodchenkov as an individual who did this all on his own.

  Bryan Fogel

  Athlete, Denial, Blame

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the people should demand accountability on the voting. I think there's no point in voting if you're not gonna demand fairness and be able to verify each vote. And other countries can do this fairly easily. So I don't think you really want democracy if you're not willing to take that first step.

  Aaron McGruder

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.

  Nick Broomfield

  Believe, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Structure

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is going to put the accused on trial again! And I still believe that accountability that eradicates impunity is very, very important for transforming the sordid culture of politics and power that we see in the world. But we need to be humble about the fact that justice will not bring back the dead.

  Payam Akhavan

  Dream, War, Believe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People in America get really angry at the Federal Reserve and at the "money system" in general during economic crises. The Fed draws hostility because of its power, its insulation from democratic accountability, its lack of transparency, and because of its historical and structural connections to finance.

  Gerald Epstein

  America, People, Historical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.

  Payam Akhavan

  Healing, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

  Billy Bragg

  Thinking, Compassion, Important

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

  T.I.

  Rich, Selling, Willing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the Kissingers of this world, enjoy de facto impunity, while those who come from countries that have long been targets of hegemonic abuse are used as poster children of accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Children, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense of accountability for our actions which affect it.

  Bob Irwin

  Believe, World, Our Actions

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